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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-10-12
For the Smyrna Times
Captain Allen MeTana

Duck Creek Gross Roads and sur.
rounding country had its full share of
patriotic men when the war of the Rev
olutlon commenced, and Allen McLane
was one of them.
His residence was near tho .,rso+
which was AZ that time known IA Rail
Street, having been donated to th,.
hItle village by gentleman of thar
name IL was afterwards nicknamed
Methodist from the wonderful revivals
and success of that denomination
OF Christians who held religions
services in private houses in said
street. This name is bore for n
century, until it was changed to Mount
Vernon Street last year. The DWELLING
mouse which Capt. McLane owned and
occupied was not on the street. but set
back, and the front faced the western
horizon, and was one of the few bricl-
dwellings in that street. This mon
erty has been owned or tenanted bv
the Mayberry's from the writer's ear
Iest recollection.
In 1854 the Methodist Church was
organized In Baltimore, Md. and in
d|oo Capt McLane donated the ground
Tor the site of church and cemetery
he was the most enthusiastic NTeth0diSf
ever heard of, for he wanted The
church Kept open for religious services
e0ery gay. Ills wife and several child
rem are buried in this cemetery. HIS
son, Lewis, was born in the bonso
where Mrs. Mayberry lives. After this
distinguished family removed TO vii.
mlngton, Lewis became United States
Senator from Delaware. and served the
state and Nation many wears in that
capacity. In subsequent life he was n
prominent member of President Jack-
sons Cabinet, and afterwards rpnre-
sented the United States as foreign
minister at the Court of St. James
captain McLane had a Etrru ON the
state road, between Duck Creek Cross
Roads and Dover, where he spent q
great deal of his time with his Cayorite
servant Latt in agricultural pursuits.
In the History of the Revolutionary
Soldiers of Delaware, bv William q
Whitley, find that Captain Allen
18th, 1777.
He enlisted partisan company. and
served faithfully and bravely through
out the war. He was in most. if not
all the battles in the Northern Depart-
ment, and in the battle of Yorktown. y
When he went to the war he took
his favorite servant L.att 10 wait on him
Onone occasion when in battle McLane
was wounded, Latt went to him. picked
nm up and removed him to a place of
safety.
The Captain took care Of him the
balance OF his life, and when he re-
moved TO Wilmington he left I4att in a
tenement house on his farm and pro-
Hlded for his wants as long as no lived.
dhe writer has seen Latt frequently.
and has some very amusing recollec-
tons of him when he came to SMYRNA
on Saturday afternoons.
SARAH P. MASON,
Smyrna, Oct. 1Qth, 1887.
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In the general depression in regard
10 larm crops which bring such a poor
return, tobacco and a number of other
thlngs have been suggested. The fol-
lowing is an account of what is heinz
attempted in another community in q
new venture:
a meeting of the farmers in the
vicinity Of Middletown was held last
week to hear what a Mr.. Spur had to
say ABOUT starting a creamery. He is
from COchranville, Pa, a small village
. miles from railroad station. where
ne IS superintendent of a creamery
Mr.. spur said that at the present
prices OF butter and cheese farmers
couId make more from stock and milk
Cnan from any other crop. The price
OF milk varies, and is governed bV the
price OF butter, but according to his
experience would average the producer
II cents per gallon. He said it was n
matter which every farmer had a great
interest In. 1t would bring cash into
the community every month. He
paid out over $4,000 for August mill
at Cochranville. Trade would imnrove
III consequence, dealing a death-blow
70 the credit system; and that dairy
farms, or farms located near a dairy
were always considered more valuable
than others. After some more tain
Spur said they had the following
proposition to make: If the farmers
and people of Middletown would form
stock company to put up Il creamery
such as they desire, with approved an
paratus costing some $4,000, thew
would agree to take 81 900 worth of the
stock and rent the plant at 8 per cent.
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ard, will represent this country in the
negotiations between Great Britain and
the United States for a settlement ~
the Nova Scotian fishery troubles ar;s-
ing under the Treaty Of 1918 arrived
IN Washington on Saturday. and held
preliminary conference with Secre-
tary Bayard '0
Mrs. Harwick, Of Memphis. wore q
bustle. 1t was a handsome hustle
that Is, II there can be O handsome bus-
tie-and within it she had sewed ~ OOO
IN greenbacks, the savings of her hon
est husband. Somebody coveted that
hustle, and the other night. while ire
owner slept, somebody took it. We
nave SAID before that the hustle must
go, and the fact that Mrs. Harwick's
mas gone proves that we spoke ad-
visedly. '''-0 al
II was cool at st. Louis while the
PRESIDENT was there, and one NIGHT the
Mayor, turning to the reception com
mlttee, suggested with a wink that
they file into the dining room and take
soLnethlng warm. Mrs. Cleveland. sud
uenly turning to the Mayor, said :.
Yes, ! think Il cup of warm coffee
would be just the thing" The com
mlJtee retired crushed. The New York
I1mes thinks " Frances Folsom Cleve-
iand' S retort on the gentlemanlv Mavor
OF 81. Louis will go skipping down the
ages hand in hand with theadmonition
GG De aostemious which Lucy Webb
hayes used to pass to William Nav
wen EYarts with his second GLASS of
lemonade" e''-'' VI
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Temperance Reform Party.
A PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY ITS LEAD
ERs TO THE VOTERS.


The leaders of the Temperance Re-
form party in Delaware have united in
the following proclamation, which is
given to the public with the endorse
ment Of the leaders in the party
throughout the State
" 10 the Temperance Reform VOters of
DetdOdre' Your attention is respect-
fully called to the question of a consti-
tutional convention to be submitted to
the voters of Delaware on the first
Tuesday of November next, a wear
ago, believing that the organic law of
the State under which we have lived
for more than 80 years, fails to guar
antee 10 Us a government deriving its
just powers from the consent of the
governed, we, as Temperance Reform
party, advocated and earnestly pleaded
for constitutional reform, and most If
not all OF the more than 5000 voters
who cast their ballots under the name
OF Temperance Reform spoke through
them for this, as well as for temperance
and other reforms.
" And not only did those voting with
us demand a change in our constitu-
ton, but many of the best and most in
telligent men of all parties who favor
government of the people, for the
people and by the people felt and still
feel an urgent desire to make every
effort in their power to secure so de-
sirable an object.
We are assured by some of the
leaders in this movement who are
members Of the dominant party that
they are ready, for the time being. to
lay aside party matters and preferences
and unite with men Ofall parties in es-
taOlishlng a government for the State
just in principle and equitable in IFS
administration. If this be so. now is
the time and this the opportunity. per-
haps the only one in a lifetime, to work
for constitutional convention through
which the people may frame a Consti.
tuition embracing such principles.
" In all our past feeble efforts to Sc
cure prohibition by local option, we
have been met with the plea that the
supreme court of the State ruled over
80 years ago that local option was an
unconstitutional act and it is useless to
pass a law to be set aside by the court.
Now, as temperance men, let us make
one united effort for constitution that
will give to the people the right of
local self-government, and the power
to stamp out the curse of the liquor
traffic or any other evil in any separate
community or in the entire State.
Finally, remember this one impor-
tant fact, that to carry the coming cleo
ton for a convention it will require
over 16,500 votes; therefore we appeal
to all of the voters of The Temper
ance Reform Party to cooperate with
the good men of all parties, whatever
may have been their past party afilia-
tiOns, in securing these much needed
reforms"
By order of 1.-THE State Central Com
mittee of the Temperance Reform
party"
October 10Th, 1887.
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him off deliberately refused to keen
the contract any longer. This occurred
last Spring and he is now irving to
recover in the courts for the Globes
violation of the bond.
Mr.. Handy is keeping house, living
in style becoming his income. al,
though he is not married. His mother
and sisters are living with him.-Morn-
ing Neles. '' -
In reference to which the Whining
ton Sunday Star says:
These reports about Delaware
newspaper men going west and sudden
~ falling into fortune. are growing
monotonous. First it was the genial
Al Richardson; then Arthur Francis
dropped onto a fat take as the printers
sly, and now comes the report that
Egbert Handy, has struck it rich,
Scott Way is still to hear from. INIT 7
have no doubt he will get there I
say it is getting monotonous. The
monotony of the thing is in the fact
that 1t IS always the Delaware newsDa-
per man who goes away that finds Ibe
bonanza, while we poor devils that stav
1T nome must trudge on in the same
old strain" SCUM
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The meeting at Georgetown last
week presided over by DR.. Hugh Mar
tin, and addressed by Messrs. Robinson.
White and McCabe, all Democrats. at
tracted a great deal of attention
throughout the State, and has done
more to bring out individual opinion
than anything Of the campaign, if such
II can be called. Some evidence of
life has been gives in both Sussex and
New Castle by the announcement of
public meetings, and the only positive
opponents are found among the Office
holders. To this in Kent is added the
Indifference Of the local politicians who
IN the main approve of it but not
enough to come out and declare them
selves until they see it is unmistake-
ably the winning side.
Il viii take 15, GOO affirmative votes
% carry the measure. The Sussex re-
formers promise to furnish 5000 of
these. New Castle is looked to for
800, which is doubted, and to make
the measure a success Kent is looked
70 for something ike 1000 votes. With
the party leaders as mum as clans and
intending their mumness to counter
act the measure, can enough men ofin-
dependent thought and conviction be
had 10 cast a sufficient vote to make
convention a success?
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A. NJ. E. Church Conference

The third annual session of the "7tb
District of the Philadelphia Annual
Conference" convened in Union RetbeI
A. M. r. Church, of Milford, on Tues
Gay alternoen. The annual sermon
preached by Presiding Elder J. w.
Norris, of Smyrna, elected much inter
est and held the entire conference as
by spell throughout its delivery. His
text was Behold 1 set before YOU an
open door," Rev, III, VIII verse. The
conference organized with the Presid-
ing Elder in the chair, and J. NJ. Tav-
Tor, secretary. At 7.3O p. NJ, a stirring
sermon was preached by Rev. J. J.
Evans, OF Milton, and after it the con-
ference resolved itself into q meeting of
praise, at WHICH the Holy Spirit was
manifested.
eonesday morning reports from
pastors and delegates were received
The reports indicated marked intellec-
tual, spiritual and moral Improvement.
AT 1.3O P, NJ, Rev. J. M. Taylor preach
ed a well wOrded sermon from Prov
erbs, ~ chap. XIII verse, in which he
spoke earnestly in the interest of edu-
cation. Music followed his address.
}. IT, Price followed with an address
upon the progress Of the Negro in
America,
Thursday evening was devoted to
Sunday School. Rev. A. N. Buckley
had it in charge and it was very cred
liable indeed. Addresses were deliv-
cred by the pastors and delegates.
essays were read and singing rendered
Ample provisions were made for the
visitors to and members of the confer
ence, by the committee in charge
Meals were served in Union Star Hail
and we doubt not that Milford will be
long remembered by the colored
preachers who have this week received
her hospitality.-MgOrd Chronicle.
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n FOR tie siayrgg Times.
Constitutional Convention,
MASS MEETING.

A call for a mass meeting at SMYRNA
is issued and being circulated for the
signatures OF the voters Of our Hun
dred. From present indications and
the readiness to sign, it lo0ks as if the
great majority of our citizens are in
favor of Reform. And it looks also as
If they had made up their minds that
the movement for a convention shOuld
be pushed forward and sustained bv
the people independent of their reooG-
nized party leaders. When the peonIe
rise in mass and in their might con
scious of the rectitude of their cause
and lmpelled by the spirit of right and
truth and justice, they become simDlv
lnvlnclble, and to their hating or re-
curant leaders are terrible as an army
with banners. But why should the
leaders hold back and try to stife the
effort by passive indifference or mae
tivityP Why try to throw cold water
on good cause? The reason for such
action must be found only in the fact
that they are afraid something will be
done or happen to render their position
IN their party insecure or possibly to
lose it altogether. But such a reason
as this IS a confession of their weak
ness: And if they are afraid to lead in
good, noble, healthy, worthy bene-
hcial and necessary reforms. then thew
are not fit to be leaders, and deserve to
lose their places. 1t is Just such times
as these that try leaders and show mn
OF what sort of metal and material thew
are. Fifty-iive years have rolled awav
since the adoption of our constitution
and these office seekers are willing to
let our government and laws remain
just as they are! unwilling to recognize
that these 55 years have developed anv
new principles or educated our peopie
up to larger privileges or made man
liest any defects in our constitution or
common law. Fire upon them awav
with them, say the people. Organize
and meet in Smyrna. Let the bands
play Unfurl the flag Call forth the
treemen from East and West and North
and South and summon the army of
voters for the exercise of the highest
elective franchise known to a free gov
eminent: that is, for the Reform of the
State Constitution and Law! Let the
people assemble in mass meeting and
hear the reason for a convention and
then let them express their convictions
at the polls on Tuesday, LIST day of No
vember next.
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THERE is a manifest disposition on
the part Of Philadelphia or at least
some Of her leading citizens to keep
the politics Of the city out of the con-
troll Of the criminal classes like it is in
Baltimore. To this end Mr.. Walsh, a
pubiie-spirited citizen and business
man, has announced a reward of 500
70 be paid in each case Of conviction of
criminal pollution of the ballot at the
next election; Col. Mcclure of the
Times offers a like reward Of 800 for
each case of conviction of criminal as
salt upon the integrity Of the election,
and the Citizens Committee that is
about to be organized is likely to offer
a similar reward. Such a prize as $500
for each fraudulent vote will be sure
to make them very scarce.
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THE fight between the friends and
opponents Ofprohibition is comingnear-
er and nearer to a hand and hand fight
that must ultimately end and in a pitch
battle between the two great parties,
one flying the temperance and the 9TH
er she liquor flag. This phase of the
contest must necessarily result when
the brewers and liquor sellers band
themselves together to raise large sums
Of money as has been attempted in
Pennsylvania to defeat the candidates
Of the other party. One political ques-
fion has been decided in this way, and
it may be that the curse of rum may
have to 60 down in the midst of
great conflict.
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Investing Peach Ynllnms

Erwin F. Smith, of the Agricultural
Bureau, of Washington, who has been
IN our State the past six weeks for the
purpose Of investigating the disease of
peach trees known as the yellows"
with his headquarters at Dover. came
to this vicinity last week, and called
at the TINES Office on Saturday. Mr..
Smith comes as an expert commissioned
by the Government, and is the first we
believe to visit the Peninsula with au-
thority for an official investigation.
There has been much interest in the
subject of the peach trees disease by
intelligent farmers from a monetary
standpoint, but their observations at
the best could be taken only for opin-
ions. Mr.. Smith as a Government
representative has facilities by micro
scopic and chemical tests not at the
command of the agriculturist. and is
given time and means to make the
work thorough. He may not reach a
definite conclusion in one or two years,
for there are many considerations to be
taken into account, but patient research
will doubtless sooner or later bring the
answer.
He is pretty well satisfied as to one
thing however, that the rapid increase
Of yellows during the past two summers
IS lagely owing to excessive rains-not
80 much that they caused, but devel-
oped it where there was a tendency.
He makes practical visit and exami-
nation Of the trees in the orchards.
their branches and roots, location and
quality of soil, age and nursery pro-
pagation. These investigations will
be supplemented BY the scientific tests
Of the laboratory, Trees that are
otherwise healthy but prematured thoir
fruit this year he would not hastily
pronounce against without giving them
a trial Of better weather, but when the
yellows are pronounced and unmistake-
able, they should come out, experience
having proved that the disease propa-
gates Itself or in other words, is catch
ing.
Mr. Smith found but little Of It In
Kent county, Maryland, where he first
commenced his investigations, and also
in the lower part Of Kent Delaware,
but IN tho vicinity Of Wyoming and in
this section he finds largo deVelop-
ment of the disease, IN one orchard six
years old Of eigt teen acres examined,
less than two hunded trees not diseased.
This Of Oourse was exceptional but
their ID entirely 90 much Of Il TO give
healthy look TO the future Of peach
culture in this section, unless, happily.
sovereign remedy is found.
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News Items

Doctors disagree as to whether the
epidemic at Tampa, Fla, is yellow
or dengue
Jefferson Davis will be asked to take
the stump for the Anti Prohibitionists
of Georgia.
Reports from the President indicate
that the Western chestnut crop is an
unusually large one.
A man has been discovered alive in
Texas for whose murder a convict is
under death sentence.
William T. Croasdale was arrested
for breach of the lottery laws at the
AntI'Poverty Fair in New York.
DR.. Howard Crosby laws it down as =
part of his temperance platform tbot
the drunkard should be punished es
well as the rumseller. -
A colored porter employed by Wheel.
er, Parson q Hayes, wholesale iewei.
ets, OF New York, was arrested for rob.
elry. " jew
Anybody who wants the Thistle can
BUY her for $4,000, but we do not inn
agine that she will be sold. She is too
slow for yacht and too fancy for an
oyster boat 90 an
The President and his party snaDt
Sunday at the home of Postmaster e.
eral Villas at Madison, Wisconsin All
but Mrs. Cleveland and Babvn ne.
urday. ''' VI 0"''
Chicago is trying hard to swallow
suburbs containing 10000 population
before the census of 1880 is taken Te
1t succeeds it will exclaim in its own
growed !" -" 10 mas
Inc Piedmont industrial exhibition
was opened at Atlanta, Georgia. Mon
aay the displays were good and the
a1ttehdence large; the Hon. Samuel I
ha .ll. OF Pennsylvania, was rendered
reception. Gu
The police through some blnnder
made brutal assault on crowd of
persons who were cheering for Henrv
ue1Tge ~ Progressive Labor meetinS
~ Union square, New York, on Satur,
Jay evening. Men were brntalI,,
oeaten and one woman was trampleS
to the ground, p'''
TINS Fhe =. y Q, telegraph has been Cob
oied 6y the Western Union and Law
loud u somebody don't kin JAW
you'd before long, he will own Amen
lea' the Statue Of Liberty aud all. The
=. y y. 3 equitable seems to be founded
oy :. W Garrett, foundered by his son
hooert.-Ceci Democrat.
messrs. iutman and Angel, the two
sen'eiheR who, with Secretary Bay !
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RAISING Chicken in Winter

Leonard Revis, of Duck Creek, who
has been running an artificial chicken
hatchery for the past three or four
years, will resume its operations again
next month on a larger scale, with the
intention of raising from $500 to 5000
broilers for next springs sales. The
building was enlarged last year to 90
feet in length. This has been divided
into fourteen yards to keep the chicks
graded as to size, his experience last
winter being that when they are allow
ed to run together many of the smaller
were trampled to death by the larger
ones, BY keeping them seperate as to
size, this will be avoided and much
loss saved. Mr.. Revis has an egg
tester of his own invention that will
reveal in weeks time after being put
into the incubator, of which he has
four, whether it is good or bad, and if
the latter is removed out of the way.
The building has heretofore been
heated by coal stoves, but Mr.. Revis
has the matter of heating it by steam
under consideration and may substi-
tute it before cold weather.
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Or the Knights Of Labor now in ses-
sion in Minneapolis and Mr. Powdcrlv
their leader, the Philadelph'a Pa.
says:
Mr. POwderly has delivered an adj
mirable address at Minneapolis. It is
Ike all the addresses on which his rep
utation rests-sOund, elevated, above
repr0ach- II the serious business of
Tie world were carried on By addresses
Mr. POWderly would lack nothing
needed for success. BUTT is not. He
promises to be most successful in cav
ing the order from the folly Of express
ing sympathy with the convicted An
arcbist murderers in Chicago. He is
less happy in guiding the acts Of the
order. His address this year is as adj
mirable IN its advice as his Richmond
address year ago, but it supplies no
remedy for the evils which have re-
duced the membership Of the order and
shaken public confidence in its man.
agement. He urged cooperation then.
A year has passed and the order is as
ever from even attempting this impOr-
tant step on any adequate scale. He
urges now a government telegraph.
We do not suppose pr Powderly or
anyone else imagines that the govern
ment control Of the telegraph service
81 the country viii perceptibly alter
the relative position Of labor or capital.
Not a thOusandth part of the country
is employed in this work and its con
troll b. private or public enterprise can
laVe no wide and general influence on
The state Of labor.
The real difficulties Of the Knights
are not to be reached by sound moral
Observation-Disclosures rs those Of Mr..
Powderly are. When the General
Convention met year ago, the crush
ingdefeat ia the Southwestern railroad
strike was not far distant. The Con-
Fenli0n instead Of restricting the power
10 order strikes, extended Il. For a
year past the Knights have been en-
tering upon contest after contest IL
which they have been defeated. The
eoai-handIers', the carpet workers'
the tobacco workers strikes and lock-
outs 10 New York were failures. The
Wilmington. BrOckiOn and Newark
contests with various branches Of the
leafher trade ended 81 defeat. The
Chicago pork-handlers and builders
strikes met-the same fate, The coke
operatives refused TO be guided BY the
heads Of the most holy order and
son. Scores and scores Of lessor CON
tests have shown with how little Wis